Preferences required, Preferences counted to completion
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
Final
%
Hazell, Joseph Aloysius
Labor Party
10,105
45.13
10,494
46.86
Mostyn, Sydney
D.L.P.
1,181
5.27
Waddy, John Lloyd (Elected)
Liberal Party
11,106
49.60
11,898
53.14
Formal Votes
22,392
Informal Votes
416
1.82
Total Votes / Turnout
22,808
91.38
Notes: A new notionally Liberal held electorate formed from parts of abolished Neutral Bay and North Sydney. The Liberal MP for Neutral Bay, I.C.Black retired, while Labor's MP for North Sydney, Ray Maher, contested the new central coast seat of Wyong.